bughunter:So when natural bodily secretions (urine and sweat, and probably also sebum) come in contact with one of the most highly reactive and corrosive chemicals there is (chlorine) creates other nasty chemicals (cyanogen chloride and trichloramine, namely) in an environment that's intended for human recreational use.

I'm assuming you only drink distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol.

theorellior:bughunter: So when natural bodily secretions (urine and sweat, and probably also sebum) come in contact with one of the most highly reactive and corrosive chemicals there is (chlorine) creates other nasty chemicals (cyanogen chloride and trichloramine, namely) in an environment that's intended for human recreational use.

I'm assuming you only drink distilled water, or rainwater, and only pure grain alcohol.

Two out of three ain't bad... Smirnoff 100 proof vodak is distilled water and triple distilled grain alcohol.

Deathfrogg:I worked at a public pool in the San Francisco Bay area for a summer. That place was packed nearly every day. The water during the summer would test out at about .5-.7% uric acid. Pretty impressive for an Olympic size pool. We were supposed to flush it to under .1% with fresh water, but that never happened. Would have cost the county a fortune.

Took a friends kid swimming in a PACKED public pool shortly after a huge lunch of mac n' cheese and hot dogs. We were in the shallow end, and I was lifting him up and down in the water real fast. On one jump, kid just starts power puking out of his mouth like a firehose. There were so many kids, and the water was so frothy, nobody even noticed as he and I swam, screaming, away to the shore - as the huge allotment of semi-digested food got dispersed rapidly among the kids.

We just watched from land as the crowd continued to play unabated, unknowing. We never went back in.